Nearly all of the Nintendo-published games coming this holiday season will be available as both a packaged product at retail and as a digital download from the Nintendo eShop. These games will join four major Nintendo 3DS games that were previously only available as physical products that were added to the Nintendo eShop on Oct. 18: Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 3D.

In addition to games also available in stores, there is a massive lineup of games that are only available in the Nintendo eShop. That list will grow stronger starting today and through the holiday season with the addition of building-block puzzle game Crashmo (Nov. 22), the sequel to the acclaimed Pushmo game, and the 360-degree water-morphing action-puzzle gameFluidity: Spin Cycle (Dec. 27). Additional games include NightSky (available now)and Ikachan (later in 2012) from Nicalis, and a trilogy of games from Level 5, including LIBERATION MAIDEN (available now), as well as Aero Porter and Crimson Shroud coming later this year.

"The quality of portable game play on Nintendo 3DS is unparalleled; no other hand-held device can match it," said Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "And that holds true whether games are purchased in packaged form, or via digital download."

In only its 20th month of availability, Nintendo 3DS owners can choose from a combined library of more than 650 traditional packaged and digital games, meaning something for every gamer on holiday shopping lists. The parade of hit titles will continue into 2013 with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Fire Emblem Awakening and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.

Nintendo 3DS is available in both its original format, or as the newly released Nintendo 3DS XL, which offers all of the original features with screens that are 90 percent larger than the Nintendo 3DS, and a 4GB SD memory card.

Remember that Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.

* – According to September 2012 NPD data.

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